Giovanni Rossi

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Giovanni Rossi

Associate Professor & Vice Chair

Office: 297 Haines Hall

Email: rossi@soc.ucla.edu

Phone: 310-267-4832

Curriculum Vitae


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Biography

I research human language and gesture as a system of tools for social interaction. My interest is both in the universal features of this system grounded in a common infrastructure for human interaction and in its variable features driven by the local resources and norms of particular cultural and social settings

Degrees

2015 PhD in Social Science, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics / Radboud University Nijmegen

2010 MA in Linguistics, Radboud University Nijmegen

2009 BA in Linguistics, University of Bologna

Publications

Rossi, G. (in press). Other-repetition in conversation across languages: bringing prosody into pragmatic typology. Language in Society.

Rossi, G. (in press). Systems of social action: the case of requesting in Italian. Oxford University Press.

Rossi, G. (2018). Composite social actions: the case of factual declaratives in everyday interaction. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 51(4), 379-397.

Floyd, S., Rossi, G., Baranova, J., Blythe, J. Dingemanse, M., Kendrick, K. H., Zinken, J., & Enfield, N. J. (2018). Universals and cultural diversity in the expression of gratitude. Royal Society Open Science, 5(5), 180391. ALTMETRIC, MEDIA RELEASE AND COVERAGE

Dingemanse, M., Rossi, G., & Floyd, S. (2017). Place reference in story beginnings: a cross-linguistic study of narrative and interactional affordances. Language in Society, 46(2), 129-158.

Zinken, J.& Rossi, G. (2016). Assistance and other forms of cooperative engagement. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 49(1), 20-26.

Rossi, G. & Zinken, J. (2016). Grammar and social agency: The pragmatics of impersonal deontic statements. Language, 92(4), e296-e325.

Floyd, S., Manrique, E., Rossi, G., & Torreira, F. (2016). Timing of visual bodily behavior in repair sequences: Evidence from three languages. Discourse Processes, 53(3), 175-204.

Dingemanse, M., Roberts, S. G., Baranova, J., Blythe, J., Drew, P., Floyd, S., Gisladottir, R. S., Kendrick, K. H., Levinson, S. C., Manrique, E., Rossi, G., & Enfield, N. J. (2015). Universal principles in the repair of communication problems. PLoS ONE, 10(9), e0136100. ALTMETRIC, MEDIA RELEASE AND COVERAGE

Rossi, G. (2015). Responding to pre-requests: The organization of hai x ‘do you have x’ sequences in Italian. Journal of Pragmatics, 82, 5-22.

Rossi, G. (2014). When do people not use language to make requests? In P. Drew & E. Couper-Kuhlen (Eds.), Requesting in social interaction (pp. 303-334). John Benjamins.

Rossi, G. (2012). Bilateral and unilateral requests: The use of imperatives and Mi X? interrogatives in Italian. Discourse Processes, 49(5), 426-458.

Awards & Grants

Awards

2018/7  Award for best dissertation in the field of conversation analysis (period 2014-2017) from the International Society for Conversation Analysis